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Portraits in Color by Ovington, Mary White - 1927

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Portraits in Color by Ovington, Mary White - 1927

Portraits in Color

by Ovington, Mary White

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New York: The Viking Press, 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. Good+/None. 241pp; No DJ, purple boards with gilt decoration, gilt titling to spine, boards slightly edgeworn, corners of boards rubbed, previous owner's name to front pastedown, a few smudges in text, text unmarked, binding is sound, Good+ condition. Inscribed & Signed by Author. Relevant news clipping (about Roland Hayes) laid in in text, with browning to the pages touching the news clipping. Portraits of 20 distinguished African-Americans by the co-founder of the NAACP. Contents: James Weldon Johnson; Marcus Garvey; Max Yergan; Mordecai W. Johnson; Lucy Laney; Robert Russa Moton; W. E. Burghardt Du Bois; Scipio Africanus Jones; Walter White; Robert S. Abbott; Maggie Lena Walker; Eugene Kinckle Jones; Louis Tompkins Wright; Ernest Everett Just; George Washington Carver; Janie Porter Barrett; Langston Hughes; Paul Robeson; Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller; Roland Hayes.
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  • Edition First Edition
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Publisher The Viking Press
  • Place of Publication New York
  • Date Published 1927
  • Keywords african-american biography history black naacp race ethnicity

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Running for Our Lives
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Running for Our Lives

by Glennette Tilley Turner (Barnes and Nobles Autographed Copy)

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Used - Good
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Dust Jacket Fair
Edition
States First Edition, no printing line
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Hardcover
ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
9780823411214 / 0823411214
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There is a Barnes and Nobles Autographed Copy sticker on the front end page. On the half title page is the inscription, "To My friend Pauline, I was so delighted that you and Louise honored me by coming to the signing of this book that has been in the making much (2/3) of the time we've known each other. I so appreciate you and your family's friendship and interest in my work. Best Wishes Glenette, May 28, 1994."

The book is in Near Fine condition. Then dust jacket is fair with tears and small pieces missing on the backside and top and bottom edges of the spine. This book is about the underground railroad and is written for ages 5 - 7.
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The White Savage: Racial Fantasies in the Postbellum South
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The White Savage: Racial Fantasies in the Postbellum South

by Friedman, Lawrence J.

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Used - Very Good
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Very Good
Edition
First Edition
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Hardcover
ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
9780139576133 / 0139576134
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Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Cloth in DJ; 184pp; DJ slightly edgeworn, boards square, clean & bright, pages slightly age-toned, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG/VG condition. Revealing and disturbing study of the racist ideas and fantasies of southern whites after the Civil War.
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Creoledom: A Study of the Development of Freetown Society

Creoledom: A Study of the Development of Freetown Society

by Porter, Arthur T.

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West of Eden Books
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London UK, Oxford University Press, 1963, hardcover, xii-151 pp, First Edition, First Printing, Very Good in Very Good dustjacket. Clean and firmly bound, slight spine-end and corner wear, lean to spine. Dustjacket unclipped bearing original price, slight edge nicks, wear to folds and head and heel of spine, in new Brodart sleeve. An historical and social study of the Creole society of Freetown, Sierra Leone. Illustrated with 4 black-&-white plates and 6 maps including a fold-out map of Sierra Leone showing Ethnic Boundaries. Appended; Handbill recruiting the black poor, Bibliography, Index.
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Vital Facts Concerning The African Methodist Episcopal Church Its Origins, Doctrines,...

Vital Facts Concerning The African Methodist Episcopal Church Its Origins, Doctrines, Government, Usages, Polity, Progress

by Smith, James H.

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Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
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Revised Edition
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Hardcover
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Dan Glaeser Books
Modesto, California, United States
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James H. Smith. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1941. Revised Edition. Hardcover. Text is clean. Maroon cover shows normal wear. Dust jacket shows wear, chipping along folds and edges. Includes the 1944 supplement to this volume. ; A Socratic Exposition .
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Manchild in the Promised Land

Manchild in the Promised Land

by Claude Brown

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Used - Good-
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Fair
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7th printing
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Hardcover
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Bonnie Lane Books
Roseburg, Oregon, United States
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Red cloth boards with some wear and fading along bottom margin. Bottom margins and bottom of text block have some bumps, and bottom of spine shows some wear. Otherwise, binding is tight and pages unmarked. Slight age-related yellowing of pages and endpaper margins.DJ has bottom stain near spine. Some chipping along margins. Two open tears and one closed tear at top of binding. Not price clipped." When this book was first published in 1965 it was praised for its realistic portrayal of Harlem....This book continues to resonate generations later..." "This book is one of most intense, remarkable autobiographies of our time. This account through the eyes of Claude Brown is a riveting portrayal of the Afro-American experience in Harlem in midcentury America."
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Sounder
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Sounder: Author's First Childrens Book

by William H. Armstrong

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Used - Near Fine
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Fair in Mylar
Edition
1969 no other printing listed 1069 on dust jacket flap
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Hardcover
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Dust jacket is very worn, now protected with a mylar book cover. Clipped dj. flaps inside, both ends. No Awards listed past 1969, see photos. Book iteself in near fine condition. States this is William Armstrong's first children's book, 1069 on dj.
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Change!

Change!

by Johnson, George, et al. (eds.), Edward Berry, Jon Eckels, Bill Lowe, Booker Emery, Joe Brantley, Huey P. Newton (about), et al

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Paperback
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Philip Smith, Bookseller
Berkeley, California, United States
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Oakland, CA: Change!, ca. 1967. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Near Fine. 8vo, 16pp (stapled self-cover). An exceptionally well-preserved copy of a Civil Rights themed publication from late 1967 (or early 1968), published in association with the Unitarian Universalist Project East Bay in Oakland and Emeryville. Includes a short piece urging readers to "Support the Huey P. Newton Defense Fund" as well as writing by adults and children intended to inform a suburban audience about conditions in the inner city.
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The White Savage: Racial Fantasies in the Postbellum South
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The White Savage: Racial Fantasies in the Postbellum South

by Friedman, Lawrence J.

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Condition
Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition
Very Good
Edition
First Edition
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
9780139576133 / 0139576134
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Book Happy Booksellers
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Cloth in DJ; 184pp; DJ slightly edgeworn, boards square, clean & bright, pages slightly age-toned, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG/VG condition. Revealing and disturbing study of the racist ideas and fantasies of southern whites after the Civil War.
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$100.00
Hambone 19 (Fall 2009) - includes Black Man in the Cosmos by Sun Ra

Hambone 19 (Fall 2009) - includes Black Man in the Cosmos by Sun Ra

by Mackey, Nathaniel (ed.), Sun Ra, Kamau Brathwaite, John Taggart, Will Alexander, Leslie Scalapino, et al

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Used - Fine
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1st edition
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Philip Smith, Bookseller
Berkeley, California, United States
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Santa Cruz, CA: Hambone, 2009. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Near Fine. 8vo, [viii]+280pp, printed wrappers. Scarce nineteenth issue of this cultural magazine edited by Nathaniel Mackey. Includes "Black Man in the Cosmos," an annotated 17-page transcription of a spring 1971 lecture by Sun Ra. Unmarked copy (from the collection of contributor Leslie Scalapino), just about as new.
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Staffrider, Volume 5, Number 1 (1982)

Staffrider, Volume 5, Number 1 (1982)

by Mutloatse, Muthobi, Mike Kirkwood and Kay Hassan (eds.), Njabulo S. Ndebele, Karen Press, Mafika Gwala, Lesley Lawson, Don Mattera, et al

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1st edition
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Paperback
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Philip Smith, Bookseller
Berkeley, California, United States
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Braamfontein, South Africa: Ravan Press, 1982. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 4to, 48pp, stapled wrappers. Scarce 1982 issue of this important multiracial South African literary magazine. Includes work by a vast number of writers. Unmarked copy, clean with minor creasing.
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Portraits in Color

by Ovington, Mary White

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Used - Good
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No Jacket
Edition
First Edition
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Hardcover
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The Chatham Bookseller, LLC
Madison, New Jersey, United States
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New York: The Viking Press, 1927. 241pp. Purple cube patterned boards. Vertical reinforcement down the spine edge. Corners are worn through, Author ink signature andi inscription on the front free endpaper. Hinges are in excellent shape, Text block is clean, unmarked. The author depicts the life and work of 20 black men and women. Mary White Ovington was a co-founder of the NAACP. Included are James Weldon Johnson, Marcus Garvey, W.E.B Du Bois, Langston Hughes, others. . Signed and Inscribed By the Author. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Octavo.
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The Sky and the Forest
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The Sky and the Forest

by Forester, C.S

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First Edition
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C.S. Forester: The Sky and the Forest. Little, Brown and Company, Boston. Stated First Edition First Printing Thus August, 1948. Cover price $2.75. Used. VG BOOK/VG UNCLIPPED DUST JACKET. A story of a central Africa. By C.S. Forester, author of the Admiral Hornblower series.
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Malungu, Ngoma vem! África encoberta e descoberta no Brasil (Cadernos do Museu da Escravatura No.1)
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"Malungu, Ngoma vem!" África encoberta e descoberta no Brasil (Cadernos do Museu da Escravatura No.1)

by Robert W. Slenes

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Rare! Luanda: Angola. Ministério da Cultura, 1995. Staple-Bound Pamphlet. Fine. Pages and cover securely held by one clean staple. Interior pristine. Covers clean and crisp, with slight reading wear to foreedge. Many B&W photos/illustrations. 24 pages. Not from a library. Published by the Angolan National Museum of Slavery and National Institute of Cultural Patrimony on the 20th anniversary of Angola's independence.
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Ol' Man Adam an' His Chillun
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Ol' Man Adam an' His Chillun

by Roark Bradford

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First Edition
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Bear Ridge Books
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New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1928. "Ol' Man Adam an' His Chillun ( Being the Tales They Tell about the Time When the Lord Walked the Earth Like a Natural Man)". 264 pages.. Solid. Clean. Flyleaf detached from title page, but all pages still bound. A great collector's item and a rare find. . First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by A.B. Walker. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Fiction.
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The Temple Of My Familiar

The Temple Of My Familiar

by Alice Walker

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No DJ Included
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Large-Print Edition
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Hardcover
ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
9780896219298 / 0896219291
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Mary Riversong Books
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Alice Walker. THE TEMPLE OF MY FAMILIAR. Copyright 1989 by Alice Walker. Thorndyke, Maine. Hardcover, ISBN 9780896219298. Publisher: Thorndike Pr, 1990. USED. VG CONDITION/ NO DJ INCLUDED. Large print. 595 pages. 5 5/8 X 8 ¾.
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Gone With The Wind
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Gone With The Wind

by Margaret Mitchell

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First Edition Thus
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MARGARET MITCHELL: Gone With The Wind, published December, 1939 by The Macmillan Company. MOTION PICTURE EDITION. First Printing Thus. Paperback. Used. Good Condition/ No DJ issued. Bound in yellow pictorial stiff card wraps. Clark Cable and Vivien Leigh front cover. 391 pages 7 X 9 1/2. Scarce. Includes 12 pages of color prints from the film. Plot summary: "Epic Civil War drama focuses on the life of petulant Southern belle Scarlett O'Hara. Starting with her idyllic life on a sprawling plantation, the film traces her survival through the tragic history of the South during the Civil War and Reconstruction, and her tangled love affairs with Ashley Wilkes and Rhett Butler."
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Harlem On My Mind: Cultural Capital of Black America 1900-1968
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Harlem On My Mind: Cultural Capital of Black America 1900-1968

by Schoener, Allon (editor)

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As new except for tiny spot on side exterior page edges and light surface scratching on the back cover. 255 pages. 8.5" X 11" X .5" (22cm X 28cm X 1.3cm) History of Harlem as cultural center. Illustrated with hundreds of black and white photos of people and cultural ephemera like playbills, tickets to the Cotton Club, and advertising banners about the importance of Black Santa. Part of a project with the Metropolitan Museum of Arts. Nonfiction. History. Photography. African American History. Regional History- New York.
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Black Ladies
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Black Ladies

by Uwe Ommer

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Like New
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Hardcover
ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
9783822886748 / 3822886742
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Book cover like new - pages clean, bright and unmarked – spine like new.
Jacket like new, slight shelf wear.
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A photographic portrait of African women.
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Robeson, Labor's Forgotten Champion
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Robeson, Labor's Forgotten Champion

by Charles H. Wright

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Very Good+
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1st Edition 1st Printing
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Hardcover
ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
9780913642061 / 0913642061
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United States: Balamp Pub Co, 1975. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good+. Book has one page with a small wrinkle, else clean and tight, jacket has some paper-loss on the backcover, else clean. Jacket is not price-clipped.
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Dick Gregory's Bible Tales, with Commentary

Dick Gregory's Bible Tales, with Commentary

by Richard "Dick" Claxton Gregory (1932-2017)

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First
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9780812816822 / 081281682X
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187 pages. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's quarter purple cloth with gilt lettering to spine over yellow boards and faux signature to cover in original pictorial jacket. Edited by James R McGraw. First edition. Richard "Dick" Gregory was an American civil rights activist, social critic, writer, entrepreneur, comedian, motivational speaker, author and actor. He became the first black comedian to successfully cross over to white audiences. Condition: Lightly soiled. Jacket corners and spine ends chipped else better than very good in like jacket.
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The Political Legacy Of Malcolm X

The Political Legacy Of Malcolm X

by T'Shaka, Oba

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None As Issued
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First Edition
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Paperback
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9780883781104 / 0883781107
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T'Shaka, Oba. The Political Legacy Of Malcolm X. Third World Press, Chicago. Stated First Edition, First Printing Thus, 1983. Softcover. ISBN0883781107. BIOGRAPHY, BLACK STUDIES, AMERICAN HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY, POLITICAL SCIENCE. A nice copy. Used. VG Condition. 293 pages, indexed. 5 3/8 X 8 1/2.
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